Yasuhiro Ishimoto ist gestorben

Der japanisch-amerikanische Fotograf Yasuhiro Ishimoto (jap. 石元 泰博) war 1921 in San Francisco geboren worden, gestern ist er in Japan gestorben.

Bild oben: Yasuhiro Ishimoto: A Tale of Two Cities [Paperback] – Arata Isozaki (Author), Colin Westerbeck (Author), Fuminori Yokoe (Author), Yasuhiro Ishimoto (Author, Photographer), Art Institute of Chicago (Corporate Author)

Ōtsuji Kiyoji – 大辻清司, Yasuhiro Ishimoto – 石元 泰博, Japan, http://bremser.tumblr.com/post/1270333115/otsuji-kiyoji-yasuhiro-ishimoto

Yasuhiro Ishimoto (Japanese American, 1921- 2012) was born in San Francisco and raised Kochi City, Japan. In 1939, due to concerns of him being drafted he returned to the US where he studied agriculture at the University of California (1940-42). He moved to Chicago in 1944 and began to study architecture at Northwestern University in 1946 when he met photographer Harry Shigeta and took up photography seriously. Two years later Ishimoto transferred to the Institute of Design where he studied with Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Gordon Coster(1948-52). In 1961 he returned to Japan (Tokyo), where he has lived ever since. 

Ishimoto showed his devotion to his adopted city, Chicago, in his book, Chicago, Chicago (Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1969). This book is often regarded as Ishimoto’s most personal statement – his bold use of contrast, the design of the frame, and the influence of his studies in architecture define his Chicago.

Ishimoto has published many books and exhibited widely throughout Japan and the US. In 1999 he was the subject of a career retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Mehr:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuhiro_Ishimoto

http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/collection/1322-yasuhiro-ishimoto-photographs-of-katsura-imperial-villa

http://www.pgi.ac/content/view/57/29/lang,en/